solution for "RPC: Unknown protocol" error message

[majbthrd]

For anyone who ran into the same problem that I did:

When trying to run a VXI-11 client (VXI-11 is a test equipment protocol that uses RPC) under Tiny Core, I got the following error message:

RPC: Unknown protocol

It seems that RPC functionality depends upon the /etc/protocols file being present to indicate what the IANA protocol numbers are for TCP and UDP.

The workaround was to remaster tinycore.gz (as described in the Wiki) to include /etc/protocols (which is a text file ~2kbytes in size found in many Linux distributions).

[curaga]

Hmm, shouldn't need a remaster, an extension of iana-etc could do. Added on my todo list, unless someone else gets one done first.